Commission Decision of 29 December 2003 laying down rules for the implementation of Council Decision 2001/792/EC, Euratom establishing a Community mechanism to facilitate reinforced cooperation in civil protection assistance interventions (notified under document number C(2003) 5185) (Text with EEA relevance) (2004/277/EC, Euratom)

Article 2U.K.

For the purpose of this Decision the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘participating States’ means the Member States, the candidate countries having signed a memorandum of understanding with the Commission, and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein;

(b)

‘third countries’ means countries not participating in the mechanism[F1;]

(c)

[F2‘ intervention teams ’ means the human and material resources including civil protection modules (as referred to in Articles 3a, 3b and 3c) set-up by the Member States for civil protection interventions;

(d)

‘ technical assistance support teams ’ means the human and material resources set-up by the Member States to fulfil support tasks.]

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